ELL Prereaders' Script Awareness: How Do They Know if a Script is English?

This study used an experimental script awareness task to measure the script recognition and metacognitions of 129 English language learners (ELLs) in Senior Kindergarten from Chinese, Portuguese, or Spanish L1 backgrounds. Items formed two clusters: those involving the Latin alphabet and those invo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mak, Joyce Yan Lok
Other Authors: Geva, Esther
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33662